On Mother's Day 1970, Sabo's Bravo Company was ambushed by North Vietnamese troops and he died in a fierce firefight on the Cambodian border trying to save wounded soldiers. With Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic warriors.In November 1969, Leslie Halasz Sabo, the newly-married, youngest son of Hungarian immigrants, shipped off to Vietnam to join the 101st Airborne Division's 506th Infantry Regiment, known as the %E2%80%9CCurrahees." Sabo's comrades-in-arms admired his sense of honor and no-nonsense approach to the grim duties of warfare. Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. Hackworth's hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam's valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th - a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the U.S. Bibliography Includes glossary and index.
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